Area of Instruction Within CCE:
     Entertainment Writing

About Me:

Tonya Jameson is a native of Columbia, Maryland, a planned community designed to promote racial and economic integration. Growing up in that bubble as she calls it, shapes Jameson's perspective on how the world is and how it should be.

• Bachelor of Arts and Science from the University of Alabama

• Master of Arts in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Maryland

•  14 years at the Charlotte Observer

• Blogs, videos and columns to encourage discussion about finding common ground within our differences.

• Charlotte Observer's coverage of minorities and youth

• Online political video columnist

• Pop music critic

• Night general assignment reporter

• Crime reporter

• Paid to Party beat

• Current beat is covering people age 40 and under

• Long time columnist for the widely read, Charlotte Observer

• Reporter with an ongoing emphasis on social, political, and community affairs

• Instructor for the North Carolina Motorcycle Safety Education Program

  (NCMSEP), a community college wide initiative